GRATEFUL DEAD BUST BENEFIT - WINTERLAND,S.F. - FEB.23,1970

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The Winterland Ballroom, often referred to as Winterland Arena or simply Winterland, was an old ice skating rink and 5,400 seat music venue in San Francisco, California. Located at the corner of Post Street and Steiner Street, it was converted to exclusive use as a music venue in 1971 by rock promoter Bill Graham. The building has been torn down and apartments have been built on the site.

Winterland was built in 1928 for the then astronomical cost of $1 million. Opening on June 29, 1928, it was originally known as the "New Dreamland Auditorium." Sometime in the late 1930s, the name was changed to Winterland. In its early years it served as an ice skating rink that could be converted to an entertainment venue. Early acts/shows at Winterland included Shipstad and Johnson's Ice Follies. It also was host to opera, boxing, and tennis.

Starting with a 1966 double bill of Jefferson Airplane and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bill Graham began to occasionally rent the venue for larger concerts that his nearby Fillmore Auditorium could not properly accommodate. After closing his New York City venue known as the Fillmore East in 1971, he began to hold regular weekend shows at Winterland. Various popular rock acts played there, including such bands and musicians as Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Cream, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Styx, Allman Brothers Band, The Grateful Dead, The Band, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Rush, Genesis, Jefferson Airplane, Traffic, Grand Funk Railroad, Humble Pie, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Sha Na Na, Loggins and Messina, Lee Michaels, Heart, Deep Purple and Elvis Costello, the latter in support of his Armed Forces album. A great number of the best-known rock acts from the 1960s and 1970s played Winterland or played two blocks away across Geary Boulevard at the original Fillmore Auditorium. Peter Frampton recorded parts of the 4th best-selling live album ever, Frampton Comes Alive!, at Winterland. The Grateful Dead made Winterland their home base, and The Band played their famous last show there on Thanksgiving Day 1976. That concert, featuring numerous guest performers including Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and many others, was filmed by Martin Scorsese and released in theaters and as a soundtrack under the name The Last Waltz. Winterland was also host to the Sex Pistols' final show on January 14, 1978.

During Winterland's final month of existence, shows were booked nearly every night. Acts included The Tubes[1], The Ramones, Smokey Robinson, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and on December 15–16, 1978, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Springsteen's December 15 show was simulcast on local radio station KSAN-FM and Springsteen historians consider that show one of his most legendary. Winterland closed on New Years 1978/79 with a concert by the Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and The Blues Brothers. The show lasted for over eight hours, with the Grateful Dead's performance — documented on DVD and CD as The Closing of Winterland — lasting nearly six hours itself. The final show was simulcast on radio station KSAN-FM and also broadcast live on the local PBS TV station KQED. Winterland was eventually torn down in 1985, and was replaced by apartments.

GRATEFUL DEAD BUST BENEFIT
WINTERLAND,S.F.
FEB.23,1970

QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE

01.TUNING/WARMUP JAM
02.BILL GRAHAM INTRO/FRESH AIR
03.PRIDE OF MAN ( FADES IN )
04.MONA
05.GOLD AND SILVER
06.MOJO
07.SUBWAY
08.EDWARD THE MAD SHIRT GRINDER

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY

01.SOAPSTONE MOUNTAIN
02.GOOD LOVIN'
03.DON AND DEWEY
04.TALK
05.LET A WOMAN FLOW
06.HOEDOWN
07.IT COMES RIGHT DOWN TO YOU
08.TUNING
09.WHITE BIRD
10.WASTED UNION BLUES
11.CROWD/TUNING
12.DO YOU REMEMBER THE SUN ?

SANTANA

01.WAITING
02.BATUKA
03.SAVOR
04.JINGO

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

01.WE CAN BE TOGETHER >
02.VOLUNTEERS
03.TUNING
04.GOOD SHEPHERD
05.SOMEBODY TO LOVE
06.NOTHING
07.TUNING
08.GREASY HEART ( END CUTS )  **** MISSING ON VERSION 1 ****
09.EMERGENCY ( CUTS IN )
10.UNCLE SAM BLUES ( CUTS IN )
11.HAVE YOU SEEN THE SAUCERS
12.TUNING
13.MEXICO
14.OTHER SIDE OF THIS LIFE
15.3/5 OF A MILE IN 10 SECONDS
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CARLOS SANTANA & WAYNE SHORTER - North Sea Jazz Festival Den Haag, Netherlands - July 10th. 1988

Carlos Santana & Wayne Shorter
North Sea Jazz Festival
Den Haag, Netherlands
July 10th. 1988
FM Broadcast

Carlos Santana - Guitar
Wayne Shorter - Saxophone
Patrice Rushen - Keyboards
Chester D. Thompson - Keyboards
Alphonso Johnson - Bass
Leon Ndugu Chancler - Drums
Armando Peraza - Percussion
Jose Chepito Areas - Percussion

1. Serpentine Fire
2. Wayne II
3. Incident At Neshabur
4. Shh
5. Fireball 2000 / Jose "Chepito" Areas / Armando Peraza
6. Goodness And Mercy / Band Intros
7. Sanctuary
8. For Those Who Chant
9. Mandela
10. Ballroom In The Sky
11. Once It's Gotcha
12. Deeper, Dig Deeper

Runtime - 1 Hour 48 Minutes 5 Seconds

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CARLOS SANTANA & JOHN MCLAUGHLIN - Invitation to Illumination: Live at Montreux 2011

Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin – Invitation to Illumination: Live at Montreux 2011 (2013)

Montreux 2011Back in 1973, Love Devotion Surrender was an unevenly received jazz fusion collaboration between Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, as he was calling himself at the time, and Carlos Santana. In a sense, McLaughlin was the senior partner of the pair.
Three years before introducing Santana to his spiritual master, McLaughlin had become a disciple of the guru Sri Chinmoy, from whom he got the name Mahavishnu. Both his second solo album, My Goal’s Beyond (1973) as well as Love Devotion Surrender were dedicated to Chinmoy. Both included writings from Chinmoy on the covers, and, on the latter, he is seen on the back photo with his hands on the shoulders of his two white-suited disciples, McLaughlin and the new convert, Santana.
Musically, McLaughlin was also the leader of the partnership. Santana, of course, was the guitarist for the Latin-rock band named after him with several hit albums and a memorable appearance at Woodstock in his resume. At the time, McLaughlin was a pioneer of the sub-genre of jazz-rock fusion with stints with Miles Davis and the Tony Williams Lifetime behind him. He was the leader of The Mahavishnu Orchestra and was famous for his double-necked guitar—one six-string, one twelve.
While Love Devotion Surrender was dedicated to Chinmoy, it was also clearly a tribute to jazz giant John Coltrane. As such, Santana was venturing into McLaughlin’s playground even as many of the players on the five extended tracks drew both from The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Santana’s own group. The final result, produced by both McLaughlin and Santana, ended up pleasing the jazz fusion crowd more than Santana’s rock base, and even in the more high-brow world of jazz enthusiasts, the experiment met with mixed critical response.
Thirty-eight years later, Love Devotion Surrender was revisited live at Montreux, and that one-time only concert is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, or on digital formats as Invitation to Illumination: Live at Montreux 2011. Now, if anyone’s the senior partner, it’s Santana. In 2011, McLaughlin was only the most recent star to join Santana for one of his many Montreux performances. But, in the main, this was very much a collaborative effort with considerable input from McLaughlin, to put it mildly. After all, Santana and McLaughlin are two seasoned pros who both know how to light up the pyrotechnics, glide into interwoven melody lines, or restrain their fingers to give the other guy space to show off his chops.
To begin, all but one track from Love Devotion Surrender (excluding “Meditation”) were redone on that July 2011 night, including John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” as well as “The Life Divine,” the latter a McLaughlin reworking of “A Love Supreme.” “Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord” was and is a Santana/McLaughlin arrangement of the gospel standard. One very nice section is when the two guitarists pick up their acoustic guitars to play Coltrane’s “Naima,” which was on Love Devotion Surrender, and the flamenco-flavored “Lotus Land Op 47, No. 1,” which wasn’t.
The rest of the performance, depending on your taste, can be described as the pair trying to offer something for everybody. As a result, much of the concert doesn’t have any real flow or continuity and sometimes just seems simply padded. True, when the performers stay close to the jazz/rock format, they soar the highest. For example, after McLaughlin described his admiration for Tony Williams, the ensemble performed two numbers from the Lifetime catalog, “Vuelta Abajo” and “Vashkar.” Going back to his work with Miles Davis, McLaughlin updates “Right Off” which he played on the 1971 Davis-penned soundtrack, A Tribute To Jack Johnson as well as “Black Satin” from the 1972 release, On The Corner.
But the nods to the duo’s inspirations strain from time to time, most notably the medley of “Peace On Earth”/”A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”/”Stairway To Heaven”/”Our Prayer”/”SOCC.” While it was nice to see the late Claude Nobs, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, playing harmonica on the final John Lee Hooker boogie “Shake It Up And Go,” the jam wasn’t a convincing blues outing. Well, it had more grit than “Downstairs Blues,” as much a paint-by-numbers guitar blues performance as you’re likely to hear.
Without question, the backup band was first rate. Special kudos must go to Cindy Blackman Santana for drum work rivaling percussion masters like Tony Williams—to whom McLaughlin compares her—as well as two of the drummers who played on Love Devotion Surrender: Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu Orchestra) and Michael Shrieve (Santana). Blackman Santana once played with Pharoah Sanders, and his “The Creator Has A Master Plan” is part of the set list.
Keyboardist David K. Mathews also added considerable texture and drama throughout the entire set. Gratefully, he plays traditional organ and piano and not the electronic synthesizers that came to dominate the jazz/rock genre in the ’70s. Other contributors included Dennis Chambers (drums), Tommy Anthony (guitar and vocals), Raul Rekow (percussion), Etienne M’Bappé (bass), Benny Rietveld (bass), and occasional vocalists Tony Lindsay and Andy Vargas.
As we’ve come to expect from all the Montreux concerts issued from Eagle Rock Entertainment, both the visuals and sound are captured in state-of-the-art quality. Mostly. In this case, while the instruments are mixed perfectly, it’s often hard to hear the introductions and comments from McLaughlin or Santana.
In the end, Invitation To Illumination is a disc for those into the jazz/rock fusion era or those who enjoy watching guitar virtuosos cutting loose with a variety of material.
01. Echoes of Angels/Introductions
02. The Life Divine
03. Medley: Peace on Earth/A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall/Stairway to Heaven/Our Prayer/SOCC
04. Right Off
05. Vuelta Abajo
06. Vashkar
07. The Creator Has a Master Plan
08. Naima
09. Lotus Land Op. 47, No. 1
10. Downstairs
11. Venus/Upper Egypt
12. Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord
13. Black Satin
14. Cindy Blackman Santana Drum Solo
15. A Love Supreme
16. Shake It Up and Go
Personnel:
Carlos Santana – Lead Guitar & Vocals
John McLaughlin – Lead Guitar & Vocals
Cindy Blackman Santana – Drums
Dennis Chambers – Drums
David K. Mathews – Keyboards
Tommy Anthony – Guitar & Vocals
Raul Rekow – Congas, Percussion & Vocals
Etienne M’Bappé – Bass
Benny Rietveld – Bass
Tony Lindsay – Vocals
Andy Vargas – Vocals
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CARLOS SANTANA PRESENTS: BLUES AT MONTREUX

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VARIOUS ARTISTS - Matrix Tuesday Night Jam Sessions 8.4 & 10.21 1970, Matrix, SF, Ca.

Matrix Tuesday Night Jam Sessions - 1970/08/04. & 1970/10/21

Matrix Tuesday Night Jam Sessions
8.4 & 10.21 1970,
Matrix, SF, Ca.,

Disc One.
The Matrix, San Francisco, California, August 4th 1970.

Line up :

John Cipollina,
Carlos Santana,
Dino Valenti,
Jack Casady,
Jorma Kaukonen,
Nicky Hopkins.

1. Rock Me Baby
2. Stormy Weather
3. Sunshine Superman Jam
4. Santana Jam


Disc Two :

The Matrix, San Francisco, California, October 21st 1970.

Line up :

John Cipollina,
Jerry Garcia,
David Freiberg,
Papa John Creach,
Jack Casady,
Jorma Kaukonen,
Nicky Hopkins.

1. Jam 1
2. Jam 2
3. Jam 3
4. Jam 4

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JOHN MCLAUGHLIN / CARLOS SANTANA - RECORDED LIVE IN CHICAGO 1974

John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England), also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English jazz and jazz fusion guitarist and composer. He played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute to Jack Johnson and On The Corner. His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused eclectic jazz and rock with eastern and Indian influences. His guitar playing includes a range of styles and genres, including jazz, Indian classical music, fusion, and Western classical music, and has influenced many other guitarists. He has also incorporated flamenco music in some of his acoustic recordings. The Indian tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has called John McLaughlin "one of the greatest and one of the important musicians of our times". In 2010, Guitarist Jeff Beck called him "the best guitarist alive". In 2003, McLaughlin was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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